I'm sorry to see the firefighters go. I kinda don't like the country singers that much, I wish they had been eliminated instead. In general I don't like any team who says "if we have to flirt our way to win the race, we're on", I mean, come on.

No team annoys me too much (YET) so it's impossible to predict who will make it far

Next week's preview: Okay so, if you're NOT planning on sticking to your word then don't form an alliance in the first place. Oh and it looks like we'll have our first injury of the season, but "ruptured Achilles", hmm I don't know... I hope he's wrong, because a ruptured Achilles means you're out.

Please Lord, if there is ever a fire in my building, please don't let the firefighters who arrive on scene be not only quitters...but also useless at physical activity.

What's with all these people who don't wear proper headgear (or sunglasses) in the heat?? And I don't think the sand castle competition was completely random. All you had to do was knock over a mound of sand, throw that sand back into a bucket and turn the bucket upside down. Have we ever seen such a large group of whiny, lazy lardasses as last night? Three teams quit their task? Honestly, the producers can't find people who truly want to be on this show??

I know Phil said something about not understanding the impact of the heat, but I'm pretty sure I also heard someone say they had only been at it 3 hours. I'm sorry, but even in the heat, I would not quit after only 3 hours. But then again I wasn't there so who knows. Hell I think I might have let the other two teams quit and still keep looking because you figure you needed about an hour for that boat challenge (maybe less), so that gives me 3 hours to still keep looking and have a shot to beat the quitters. I mighta found it on the very next castle. I think I would have kept going and taken a shot at finding the clue knowing I had a good 3 hours to still keep looking to finish ahead of the penalty takers.

Was it me, or did Phil seem very ticked off that 3 teams quit the challenge. He barely even talked to those teams on The Mat, and did he even utter a word to the firemen except you have been eliminated? Don't remember now, but I got the impression he hates it when people quit a task and just accept the 4 hour penalty.

So new rule for next round ... make it a 12 hour or even a 24 hour penalty for quitting a task. Then let's see who quits. In most cases, a 4 hour penalty is pretty much negated anyway if there is travel ahead and waiting for flights, or waiting for some attraction to open, etc. Make it a bigger hit so its a bigger risk in quitting.

As terrible as the hay bales were, at least they didn't have to roll them back up again for other teams to waste time looking through. Or worse, forgetting which ones you've done and doing them again. So I can see how frustrating a seemingly simple task like the sandcastles could be. You could potentially waste your time doing the same ones over and over; especially if you were a later team where the field was probably all choppy and most of the clues already taken.

I know Phil said something about not understanding the impact of the heat, but I'm pretty sure I also heard someone say they had only been at it 3 hours. I'm sorry, but even in the heat, I would not quit after only 3 hours. But then again I wasn't there so who knows. Hell I think I might have let the other two teams quit and still keep looking because you figure you needed about an hour for that boat challenge (maybe less), so that gives me 3 hours to still keep looking and have a shot to beat the quitters. I mighta found it on the very next castle. I think I would have kept going and taken a shot at finding the clue knowing I had a good 3 hours to still keep looking to finish ahead of the penalty takers.

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THIS! I thought the firemen would be the lone holdouts and not take the wussy penalty. It seemed a no-brainer! Let the other two moron teams race to the mat, while the other team finds the clue in under four hours and glides on in ahead of them. And I thought Phil seemed pissy, too.